what quotes sum up your way of looking at life? Or you think are particularly clever? Or maybe just are a really clever turn of phrase someones came up with.

NOT song lyrics though.

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See my signature for an Oscar Wilde quote:

We are all in gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars.

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice
lasts a little longer.

Oscar Wilde

'we do not see things as they are, we see them as we are' - anais nin

kind of cliched but i still really love it.

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lol thread title

anyway we understand it

i'm not sure if it's exactly right word for word

alice - but i don't want to be around mad people
chesire cat - oh i'm afraid we're almost all mad here

Abba Eban on the UN: "If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."

what is he trying to say with this?

"get out there and get peace, think peace, live peace and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like" - John Lennon.

"I think as soon as you have an opinion that is outside...what is considered to be conventional way of thinking- as soon as you think outside of that you are considered controversial. I think that I like to ask questions, I like to challenge authority, and a lot of people perceive that as controversial" - Madonna

Stories don't happen to people who stay at home.

"I'm just trying to matter" - June Carter

"Later 'twas said of the most perfect society someone else, made like me certainly will come out and act freely" - Kavafis

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with out thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world" - Dhammapada

"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself" - Mark Twain

"No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone" - Wendy Wasserstein

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it. Never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed" Syndey Smith

"Never be entirely iddle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditationg or endeavoring something for the public good" - Thomas A. Kempis

"Wisdom lies in understanding our limitations" Carl Sagan

"The universe resounds with the joyful cry I am" - Scriabin.

"...but such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing" - Thomas Paine

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange.

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face " -McBeth

"Life and death. Energy and peace. If it stopped today, it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I have made, and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul. It was worth it for having been allowed to walk where I have walked, wich was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it and above" - Gia Marie Carangi

"It is quite certain that seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more than obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. The King seems to understand this truth; as for myself I know that in my whole life (even if I lived 100 years) I shall never forget the day of the coronation" - Marie Antoinette

"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?" - Marie Antoinette

Do not listen to the praise or criticism of fools.

In order to do interesting work, you must lead an interesting life.

Art is equal parts passion and anger.

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

- Leonard Cohen

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. "


"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

- Sylvia Plath

“My biggest inspiration has been romantic relationships, because there's something about the way that you are in a relationship that is reflective of your relationship with the world.”
- Fiona Apple

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn." -- Gore Vidal

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead

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"Whatever you dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."

very nice. i love sagan.

my favorite quote ever -

"the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" - william blake

some salvador dali ones i like:

"at the age of six I wanted to be a cook. at seven I wanted to be napoleon. and my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
"those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
"i don't do drugs. i am drugs."

oh dali....

and one by nietzsche that i like is, "all things are subject to interpretation. whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

What then can move her? if nor merth nor mone,
She is no woman, but a senceless stone.

Edmund Spenser Sonnet 54

You don't understand. I could'a had class. I could'a been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am

on the waterfront

One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature....It is human, rather, and only its owner and producer gives it such importance, as if the world pivoted around it. But if we could communicate with the mosquito, then we would learn that he floats through the air with the same self-importance, feeling within itself the flying center of the world.

Nietzsche

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origins in the ecstasies that might have been" Edgar Allen Poe

"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am" Shakespeare

"When I see a couple of kids
And guess he's fucking her and she's
Taking pills or wearing a diagphram
I know this is paradise" Philip Larkin

"And that one talent Which is death to hide" Milton

"But where his desolation trod
The people in their agony
Despairing cried
'There is no God' " I'm not actually sure if this was written by Vera Brittain or her fiance, either way it came from Testement of Youth

"Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men?" Shelley

"It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific' " Beatrix Potter